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Wed., July 11. 1998, Houston Times Jonrtuit
Potpourri
out in the communities they visit
about what good times they have.
II you witnessed the wonderful
parade they put on for Perry
Friday morning and you have an
interest in camping anyway, you
just may want to enjoy member
ship in Family Campers & Rvers,
C/O Gary Owens, 5509
Shenandoah Drive, Cross Lane,
WV 25313, 304/776-6677.
•••
Now there is another ornament
to add to our collection that start
ed with Houston County Board of
Education Building and New
Perry Hotel offered as a fund-rais
er by Balv&unuca Club at
Impressions downtown.
See the ad on these pages for
the Perry High School ornament.
It is offered by the Houston
Association of Educational Office
Professionals which has local,
state and national chapters.
They plan to offer three orna
ments featuring three different
schools each year until all the
county schools arc available. On
sale now at Houston County
Board of Education. IKK) Main
St., arc Perry High School and
Perdue Elementary School.
Ornaments will also be available
at the schools. Proceeds from the
sale of the school ornaments go
for scholarships to a deserving
graduate of each county high
school each year. The scholar
ships for 1998 amounted to $250
each.
All ornaments are priced at sl6
with optional stand for $4.
•••
Happy 45th Birthday, Perry
City Manager Skip Nalley on
Monday, July 20. Many happy
returns.
•••
Get well wishes to Freddie
Klein who is on the mend at home
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now after a serious bout with
pneumonia here at Perry Hospital
and at Medical Center of Central
Georgia.
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Dr. Dan and Debbie Stewart
and daughters, Jennifer and Katie,
covered a lot of territory with a
motor home the last couple of
weeks. First stop was for a sur
prise 50th wedding anniversary
party for Debbie’s parents, Calvin
and Betty Herrington of
Jonesboro. The girls’ cousin,
Adam Herrington, joined them
there for a sightseeing trip that
included Washington D.C.,
Baltimore, Lancaster, Hershey
Park, and to visit Dan’s relatives
at Fredericksburg and Virginia
Beach. They came home through
the Outer Banks of North
Carolina.
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00p5... Last week’s recipe is
affectionately called STOP
(Squash, Tomatoes, Onions,
Peppers). Get it?
That leads to this week’s recipe
which is called STUFF. Serena
Slezak Dykes, my Delta flight
attendant friend, brought it along
awhile back to concoct when vis
iting her dad, John Slezak and
Irene. The amounts are vague, but
it probably will turn out okay any
way you make it. When have you
gotten out the ole electric frying
pan?
STUFF
Spray electric skillet with PAM
Salt and pepper each layer
I to 2 pounds ground chuck
Potatoes, sliced
Carrots, sliced
Onion, sliced
Cabbage, shredded
Cream of mushroom soup
Do not stir.
Cover.
Set on LOW 45 minutes.
The Hamptons
of Perry
‘The ‘Best %£j)tSecret of Middle Qeorgia
Kellogg Pattons quest for the 1998 Nike
World Masters Games and championship
Sm iAI. TO THK TlMBt-JoCKNAL
Warner Robins is home to
many people. It's the
International City.
It is also home to a competitive
Masters swimmer who is headed
to Portland, Ore., in August to
compete in yet another World
Championship event.
Besides her air force reserve job
a weekend a month and two weeks
per year as a technical sergeant and
a sheet metal mechanic with the
622 Combat Logistic Support
Squadron at Robins Air Force
Base, Kellogg Patton has five
other jobs she juggles on a weekly
basis. Where you and I have one
maybe two jobs, Patton says if she
loses track of what day of the week
it is, she's sunk.
Besides her job as the resident
nutritionist and produce clerk at
Kroger, a Wellness, Nutrition,
CPR/First Aid, and Fitness
Walking teacher at Georgia
Military College on base and at
the Macon Police Academy, a
sheet metal mechanic in the 622
CLSS Air Force Reserves at
Robins, and a Health columnist
for the Houston Times Journal in
Perry, Patton also dabbles in vari
ous entrepreneurial ventures. She
is the local “if-you-need-it-for
swimming-she-can-find-it-and-
order-it-for-you” expert in town.
Another hidden talent recently
rewarded are her skills as an ama
teur chef. She recently won sec-
Registration for fall semester
under way at Macon State
Early registration for fall
semester classes at Macon Stale
College is now under way. Fall
classes begin earlier this year
August 24 due to the
University System-wide conver
sion to the semester system
Classes end December 9.
Macon State offers bache
lor’s degree programs in health
information management, health
services administration and infor
mation technology, plus two-year
transfer and career programs in
more than 50 majors, including
business administration, psychol
ogy, education, computer science.
English, sociology and pre-engi
neenng and allied health pro
grams such as nursing, dental
Flint EMC to open Energy Stores
in Warner Robins and Reynolds
Special to the Times-Journal
Flint Electric Membership
Corporation has announced the
purchase of Modern Age
Appliances in Warner Robins for
one of its first retail appliance
outlets, known as The Energy
Store. ThcJVarner Robins facility
and a second location in
Reynolds. Both will open on Aug
I.
Located at 612 Russell
Parkway, Modem Age will close
July 31. and re-open the next day
Call 987-1823 to place an ad
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ond prize in the 1998 Georgia Egg
Commission’s 15th Annual Egg
Recipe Contest with her recipe for
baked chilies rcllenos.
Patton has an unusual hobby of
collecting college degrees “for a
living”. Already hanging on her “I
Love Me” wall along with many
Honorable Discharge certificates
is a CCAF degree an asso
caite’s degree in sheet metal, a
bachelor's in recreation adminis
tration, a master of science in
community services/nutrition,
and a vocational diploma in
accounting management.
Her current project is a passion
ate pursuit of her final college
degree -a Ph D in holistic nutrition.
Somewhere in all this, Patton
has time to coach two Masters
swim teams and maintain her own
dedication a competitive Masters
swimmer. She has a host of rib
bons from only nine years of
swimming but her favorite and
most hard earned medal was a 4th
place in the 50 meter backstroke
at the 4th Pan Pacific World
Masters Swim Championships in
Tokyo, Japan in 1991.
This event marked the begin
ning of her quest for world cham
pionship competition. After mov
ing to Warner Robins in 1993, she
trained and competed in the 1994
World Masters Swim
Championships in Montreal,
Canada Thanks to generous sup
port from this community she was
hygiene, health information tech
nology and respiratory therapy.
Day and evening classes are
scheduled at three Macon State
College locations: the main cam
pus at 1-475 and Eisenhower
Parkway, the Robins Resident
Center at Robins Air Force Base,
and the Warner Robins Campus
in the Advanced Technology Park
off Houston lake Boulevard.
To give students more flexi
bility in scheduling classes,
Macon State offers three choices
under the semester plan Regular
session classes meet August 24 to
December 9. Session I classes run
August 24 through October 16,
and Session II classes run
October 19 through December 9.
In addition, the MSC fall sched
as The Energy Store. Current
Modem Age owners, Richard and
Sandy Dubrow are positive about
the change.
“We feel it is an excellent
opportunity for us and for Flint
EMC We are excited about the
future,” said Ms. Dubrow.
The Energy Store will retail
GE and Hotpoinl household
appliances and Flint Advantage
products such as DISH Network,
pagers and surge protectors, with
expanded product lines to follow.
Family Healthcare Center
Alice House, M.D. Steven House, M.D.
NOW ACCEPTING PATIENTS
To make your appointments now,
call 757-6490 A
200 Highway 49 South Amp
Byron, GA 31008
Next to Giant Foods
able to swim and finish every race
she entered. To finish 20th in the
200 backstroke at a world event
is quite an accomplishment. Just
being able to afford financially go
is half the battle.
The quest continues for Patton
to swim in a world championship
meet. She is now training for the
1998 Nike World Masters Games
and Swim Champion-ships 8-15
August in Portland, Ore. With the
community’s support this year,
she may again “go for the gold”.
Actually she says, “I just go to
swim and finish. I’ll finish first
place in my lane every time
because I’m the only one in my
lane. How I place overall depends
on how many of the 2,000 swim
mers are women in my age group
(45-49) are entered in my events.
My goal this year is to raise the
money to go. Then just go to
swim, finish, and have fun. If I
make swimming too competitive,
then it will be stressful. With all
the stress in life, I need swimming
to remain fun. I make sure I am
not competitive. This philosophy
is rewarding."
Patton is not your conventional
competitive swimmer. She never
learned to breath out of her nose
or open her eyes under water so
she compensated for this problem
by wearing scuba goggles when
she swims. This doesn’t stop her
from competing.
“I sometimes think the officials
ule includes 41 distance learning
classes , which use the statewide
video conferencing network or
the Internet.
For additional information
on programs of study and admis
sion procedures, a copy of the fall
semester schedule or to arrange a
personal visit with an admissions
counselor, call the office of
admissions at 471-2800 or toll
free 1-800-272-7619 for any of
the campuses. The Admissions
Office on the main campus is
open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Monday through Thursday, and
from 8 a.m. to 4;3Q p.m., Friday.
The college’s e mail address
is mcinfor@cennet.mc.peach
net.edu and the MSC web site is
www.mc.peachnet.edu
There will be special pricing for
Hint EMC members, non-mem
bers and contractors.
Asa convenience to Flint
EMC members, the locations will
also accept electricity bill pay
ments and new service applica
‘ions.
“To better serve consumers.
Flint EMC is becoming more than
a power utility. We are becoming
an energy company, “ said Joe
Cade, General Manager of Flint
EMC
BYRON
wnie the Masters rules so I can
continift; to wear my huge gog
gles,” she said.
She doesn’t do racing starts
or flip turns. With all these
drawbacks, she won a 4th place
medal in the 50 meter back
stroke at the 4th Pan Pacific
World Masters Swim
Championships in Tokyo, Japan
in 1991. Her specialty in swim
ming is the 200 backstroke.
But she enjoys the 1,650 yard
event. This is one mile or 66
lengths or 33 round trip (laps) of
a 25-yard pool. Her best time
was first place in the Dixie Zone
Championships (March 1998)
where she heal her goal of 30
minutes and finished in 29 min
utes 56 seconds.
Besides Masters swim meets,
a yearly tradition for Patton is
swimming her age times 100
yards. This September the annu
al event is marked by a continu
ous swim of 4,700 yards. Last
year the 4,600 yards (92 laps)
took her 94 minutes. This year
she hopes to beat that time And
when she reaches the big 50?
Let’s wait and see.
This year she not only goes to
world championships as an
Aquanauts Masters swimmer
from Georgia but she also goes
as a coach of another brave
Aquanauts swimmer. The added
responsibility is just what
Kellogg love about her life as a
swim coach.
“I iove to share my travel and
swimming adventures with oth
ers. Taking a fellow swimmer is
really fun I know the ropes
from my experiences at World’s
in Tokyo (1991) and again at
Montreal in 1994. Where the
military is “hurry up and
wait”..swimming is warm up
then wait for your event.”
This world event is part of
the 1998 Nike World Masters
Games patterned after the regu
lar Olympic games. The only
difference is the minimum age
is 30 years old (25 for swim
ming), the games are sponsored
by Nike so the commercialism
and sponsorship hype will be
less. But sponsorship will help
get Patton to Oregon in August.
Patton and her
“mystery”swimmer (she doesn’t
want anyone to know she’s going)
are Masters swimmers from the
Adult Swim Program at the
Aquanauts pool in Memonal Park
right across from the base off
Cannon Road at the south end of
First Street. Patton has about 45
swimmers in her year round adult
(age 18 and older) swim program
and coaches about 15 Masters
swimmers who want to compete.
These members join either the
local Aquanauts Masters team or,
if they’re military, they’ll join the
Air Force Aquanauts team.
The rest of the swimmers are
lap swimmers or “aqua-bob
bers”. This is a do-your-own
thing aqua fitness lane. This
program is designed for adults
wanting to learn to swim more
efficiently thus mC.ing belter
use of their lime in the water
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